In a time exposure, the hands of a CVG controller are blurred as he makes movements and types updates. Over the next decade, traffic control will undergo radical change.

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ERLANGER - The blips on the screens in front of air traffic controllers at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport will still represent planes landing, taking off and crisscrossing the airspace.

But over the next decade, how those signals get to controllers will undergo radical change - and that could mean big shifts for airlines and their passengers by 2020.

The Federal Aviation Administration is starting to install a nationwide $15 billion NextGen air traffic control system, which relies more on satellite positioning technology than traditional radar. The agency says ...